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  1. Justin Fisher's avatar

    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

  2. Mark's avatar

    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

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  4. Keith Douglas's avatar

    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

  5. sahpa's avatar

    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

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“Myths about Nietzsche”

A bit far afield of our standard fare, but this podcast might be of interest to some readers.  And even if Nietzsche is not your cup of tea, do check out the Philosophy Bites site for lots of fun interviews with philosophers.  (And if you enjoy it, as I expect you will, make sure to hit their tip jar, as Nigel Warburton and David Edmonds, the proprietors, pay for it all out of their own pockets.)

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